Set amid descriptions of the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes's birth in 1905 and his death in 1976, this book gives an insider's perspective about what money can buy, and what it can't.
Because of his reclusiveness it was difficult for people to really get to know him. As a result of this book, those who read it will come away with the feeling that they know Howard Hughes.
“We didn't know a thing about it [gambling] and nobody here was interested in learning.”74 Nevertheless, Holliday sent Calvin Collier, the tool company's vice-president and treasurer, to Las Vegas to assist temporarily in ...
Howard Hughes His Achievements and Legacy: The Authorized Pictorial Biography
Howard suffered from “Afro-phobia.” Hughes used to preview all of his movies at the Sam Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood. It was a small room, big enough for his Barcalounger plus a smaller one for his wife Jean Peters.
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74 Nevertheless , Holliday sent Calvin Collier , the tool company's vice - president and treasurer , to Las Vegas to assist temporarily in managing the new property . For the next three months , Collier , Maheu , and Dick Gray “ formed ...
Drawing on thousands of obscure documents, including secret FBI reports and court documents, and new interviews, a detailed biography explores Hughes's love affairs, his relationship to his mother, and his complicated life. Reprint.
Nancy Carroll was a brief but sincere romance . One of his longest affairs was with Katharine Hepburn . It seems like a curious match , because she was not the kind of voluptuous beauty that he favored . But she liked to fly and play ...
With a deft comic touch and an astounding narrative style, Steven Carter's novel creates a picture of a Hughes who might have been, a biographer who can't separate his subject from his own visions of grandeur, and a public that demands its ...
In June 1971, Dr. Lawrence Chaffin told Hughes's aides, Chester Davis and Bill Gay, that Howard's primary problem was drugs, and if he could get off them, he could be rehabilitated (Real 281). Was Howard so addicted that he was willing ...